Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights by Thom Hartmann

Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights by Thom Hartmann

"This is a seminal work, a godsend really, a clear message to every citizen about the need to reform our country, laws, and companies."-Paul Hawken, New York Times-bestselling author

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED

Unequal taxes, unequal accountability for crime, unequal influence, unequal control of the media, unequal access to natural resources-corporations have gained these privileges and more by exploiting their legal status as persons. How did something so illogical and unjust become the law of the land?

Americans have been struggling with the role of corporations since before the birth of the republic. As Thom Hartmann shows, the Boston Tea Party was actually a protest against the British East India Company-the first modern corporation. Unequal Protection tells the astonishing story of how, after decades of sensible limits on corporate power, an offhand, off-the-record comment by a Supreme Court justice led to the Fourteenth Amendment-originally passed to grant basic rights to freed slaves-becoming the justification for granting corporations the same rights as human beings. And Hartmann proposes specific legal remedies that will finally put an end to the bizarre farce of corporate personhood.

This new edition has been thoroughly updated and features Hartmann's analysis of two recent Supreme Court cases, including Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which tossed out corporate campaign finance limits.

"If you wonder why and when giant corporations got the power to reign supreme over us, here's the story."-Jim Hightower, national radio commentator and New York Times-bestselling author

"Tell s the grand story of corporate corruption and its consequences for society with the force and readability of a great novel. "-David C. Korten, bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the World

Thom Hartmann is the nation's premier progressive talk radio personality, heard on over a hundred stations, as well as XM and Sirius radio, and broadcast live on the Free Speech TV network across the country. He has eighteen books to his credit, including Threshold, Screwed, and Cracking the Code.

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ISBN 13	9781605095592
ISBN 10	1605095591
Title	Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
Author	Thom Hartmann
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Berrett-Koehler
Year published	2010-06-07
Number of pages	384
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